Button



(No Model.)

,.P. HIRSHPIELD.

BUTTON.

V No. 811,758. Patented Peb.` 3, 1885.

6M@ M Y UNITED STATES PHILIP IIIRsIIFInLD, F

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LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,758, dated February 3, 1885.

Application tiled May 2.1, 1884. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILIP HIRsHFInLD, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to buttons; and It consists in protectors for protecting the button- Io thread andthe button-holes from wearing each other, said protector having the end intended to be next the button slotted, as hereinafter spccitied.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis I5 an isometric View of a covered button with rny improvement used in connection there with; Fig. 2, a side elevation of such a but- Ion, with a protector in central section; Fig. 3, a plan of the protector detached.

2c In the drawings,the button A (shown in Figs. l and 2) is a cloth-covered button, ofthe usual construction, and having a soft shank, b, through which a needle and thread can be passed to secure the button to a garment.

Itis customary, in sewing on .all such buttons as are shown in the drawings, to wind the thread several times around the parts ot' the th read which connect the button to the cloth be I'ore fastening the end ofthe thread in the cloth. This is done partly to set the button out from the cloth by a shank of thread, and thereby makeit easierto engage the button and the button-hole wit-h each other and allow the edges ofthe button-hole to pass between the button and the cloth to which the button is att-ached, and partly to protect the connecting-threads from being worn ott' by the edges of the button; but the winding-threads soon become worn and broken, and leave the connecting- 4o threads unprotected, and the latter threads rapidly wea-r the edges of the button-hole.

To save the connecting-th reads and the edges of the butto/n-hole, I use a protector, which maybe ofthe form, C, shown in Figs. 1, 2, and

3, the same being a short tube circular in crosssection and flaring at the ends, but preferably of larger diameter'at the out-er end or end next the button A, and provided at said outer end with slots c,through which the needle and thread may be passed when used with 5o buttons which are not adapted to be sewed through and through. The slots c allow the needle and thread to be passed through the cloth or garment up into the central opening,

c', of the protector, through the soft shank of 55 such a button as is shown in Fig. 2, and out at one'of the slots, and then back through the slot., shank, and central opening and cloth.

\Vhen the protector is used, the connectingthreads are not wound and the button-thread 6o is wholly on the inside ofthe protector.

I ani aware that buttons perforated near the center have been provided with a hollow tubular shank, and that buttons having hollow Shanks, slotted near their inner `ends to receive a staple or wire fastening, have been made, and I claim neither of these construe tions; but I believe it to be new to use between a button provided with a shank and the article to which such button is to be attached 7o a tubular protector surrounding said shank, and haring in its outer edge slots to enable a needle and thread to be passed through such shank.

I claim as my invent-ion- 75 The protector consisting of a 'tube having flaring open ends, and adapted to be placed between a button and the article to which such button is to be sewed, and to surround and' protect the threads which connect said button 8o to said article, said protector having the end intended to be neXt the button slotted, as herein described, as and for the purpose specified.

PHILIP HIRSHFIELD.

Witnesses:

ALBERT M. MOORE, E. W. THoIIrsoN. 

